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Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway
Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords. Early life and family Colston was the son of Edward Colston, of Roundway Park near Devizes, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from Northolt in Middlesex. in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of Hounslow. Career He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1885, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Bristol North. He was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Colston
Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (16 May 1854 – 17 June 1925) was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1906, and was later elevated to the peerage, taking his seat in the House of Lords. Early life and family Colston was the son of Edward Colston, of Roundway Park near Devizes, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa, daughter of Rev. Edward Murray from Northolt in Middlesex. in 1879 he married Rosalind Emma Gostling-Murray, daughter of Col. Charles Gostling-Murray of Hounslow. Career He was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. He was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1885, and became a Deputy Lieutenant of Wiltshire in the same year. He was also a Justice of the Peace for Wiltshire. At the 1885 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Bristol North. He was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of Parliament (United Kingdom)
In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past-the-post voting system in single member constituencies across the whole of the United Kingdom, where each constituency has its own single representative. Elections All MP positions become simultaneously vacant for elections held on a five-year cycle, or when a snap election is called. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 set out that ordinary general elections are held on the first Thursday in May, every five years. The Act was repealed in 2022. With approval from Parliament, both the 2017 and 2019 general elections were held earlier than the schedule set by the Act. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then a constituency vacancy may be filled by a by-election. Under the Representation of the People Act 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK MPs 1895–1900
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK MPs 1892–1895
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 1707 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative Party include: Europe Current *Croatian Conservative Party, *Conservative Party (Czech Republic) *Conservative People's Party (Denmark) *Conservative Party of Georgia * Conservative Party (Norway) *Conservative Party (UK) *The Conservatives (Latvia) Historical *Conservative Party (Bulgaria), 1879–1884 *Conservative Party (Kingdom of Serbia), 1861-1895 * German Conservative Party, 1876–1918 *Conservative Party (Hungary), 1846–1849 *Conservative Party (Iceland), 1924–1927 *Conservative Party (Prussia), 1848–1876 *Vlad Țepeș League, in Romania 1929–1938 * Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) * Conservative Party (Romania), 1991–2015 * Conservative Party (Spain), 1876–1931 * Tories, Britain and Ireland 1678–1834; the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 Deaths
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1854 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. * January 6 – The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is perhaps born. * January 9 – The Teutonia Männerchor in Pittsburgh, U.S.A. is founded to promote German culture. * January 20 – The North Carolina General Assembly in the United States charters the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, to run from Goldsboro through New Bern, to the newly created seaport of Morehead City, near Beaufort. * January 21 – The iron clipper runs aground off the east coast of Ireland, on her maiden voyage out of Liverpool, bound for Australia, with the loss of at least 300 out of 650 on board. * February 11 – Major streets are lit by coal gas for the first time by the San Francisco Gas Company; 86 such lamps are turned on this evening in San Francisco, California. * February 13 – Mexican troops force William Walk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway
Brigadier (United Kingdom), Brigadier-General Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway (31 December 1880 – 29 March 1944) was a British Army officer in the Second Boer War and World War I. Early life Edward Colston was born on 31 December 1880 at Roundway Park, near Devizes in Wiltshire, the only son and heir of Charles Colston, 1st Baron Roundway, Charles Colston, later Member of Parliament for Thornbury (UK Parliament constituency), Thornbury, who was created Baron Roundway of Devizes in 1916. He was educated at Eton College, 1894–99. Military career Boer War Colston was an officer in the 4th (Militia (United Kingdom), Militia) battalion of the Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment). He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 21 February 1900, and served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa 1901–02 during the Second Boer War, where he was wounded. Following the end of the war, he returned home with other men of his battalion on the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Plunkett, 17th Baron Of Dunsany
John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (31 August 1853 – 16 January 1899) was an Anglo-Irish Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician and peer. Early life and career Plunkett was the second son of Edward Plunkett, 16th Baron of Dunsany (1808–1889), and Lady Anne Constance Dutton (1816–1858), daughter of John Dutton, 2nd Baron Sherborne and Mary Bilson-Legge (1780–1864), daughter of Henry Bilson-Legge, 2nd Baron Stawell and Mary Curzon. His father pursued military interests, and wrote on the topic of a Channel Tunnel to France. His elder brother, Randal Edward Sherborne Plunkett, predeceased him. John William Plunkett received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College Dublin (1877). He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1881). He was Lieutenant R.N. Artillery Volunteers and a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for the Thornbury (UK Parliament constituency), Thornbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Roundway
Baron Roundway, of Devizes in the County of Wilts, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 June 1916 for Charles Colston, Conservative Member of Parliament for Thornbury from 1892 to 1906. He was succeeded by his only son, the second Baron. He was a Brigadier-General in the Army and fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War. He had no male issue and on his death on 29 March 1944 the barony became extinct. The family seat was Roundway Park, near Devizes, Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of . It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire .... Barons Roundway (1916) * Charles Edward Hungerford Atholl Colston, 1st Baron Roundway (1854–1925) * Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway (1880–1944) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Roundway Extinct baronies in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Birthday Honours
The 1916 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official birthday of The King, and were published in ''The London Gazette'' and in ''The Times'' on 3 June 1916. Owing to the ongoing War, the 50-page supplement to ''The Gazette'' included 3,880 names of recipients of honours, military promotion of rank and medals, including the Military Cross (708 people, among them the Prince of Wales), Distinguished Service Order (373) and 1,217 Military Medals. In addition, more than 500 nurses from across the British Empire received the Royal Red Cross, a huge number noted by ''The British Journal of Nursing'' in its issue on 10 June: "The inclusion of so many members of the nursing profession (516) in the Birthday Honours' list is a unique event, and we most cordially congratulate those Matrons, Sisters and Nurses who have earned this d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athelstan Rendall
Athelstan Rendall (16 November 1871 – 12 July 1948) was a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party, later Labour Party (UK), Labour politician in the United Kingdom. Family and education Rendall was the son of Henry Rendall Justice of the Peace, JP of Bridport in Dorset. He was educated at University College School. In 1897, he married Amy, daughter of J J Young JP of Northend, Portsmouth. They had one daughter. Amy Rendall died in 1945 and Rendall was remarried, in 1946, to Beatrice Sophia, the daughter of Captain A W Brooke-Smith Royal Naval Reserve, RNR. Career After first working as a journalist, Rendall trained as a solicitor, passing the Law Society final examinations in January 1894 and practising at Yeovil. After he left Parliament, Rendall reverted to the law and was a partner in the firm of Rendall, Litchfield and Co. of Bournemouth. Politics In 1895, Rendall joined the Fabian Society but his political affiliation at this time was still Liberal, as reflected by his memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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